Early Career Workshop of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ibero-Mediävistik
Current Approaches and Challenges in Medieval Iberian Studies
10-11 Sept. 2025, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
The Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ibero-Mediävistik, a network uniting primarily German-speaking scholars working on medieval Iberia, is pleased to announce its second workshop for early career scholars, which will take place at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna, Austria) from 10th to 11th September 2025, organized by Patrick Marschner and Alexander Marx.
This call for papers invites contributions from early career scholars broadly understood, that is, from students engaged in their MA theses up to experienced postdocs working on their second books, in order to establish a productive environment for academic exchange and networking. Contributions should be delivered in English, either as a 20-minute paper or as a poster (presented in a separate poster session). They can cover any period of the Middle Ages and any subject related to the Iberian Peninsula. We strongly encourage to use this opportunity for presenting research that is still a work-in-progress, but we also welcome advanced projects, just as we invite contributions from various disciplines such as history, art history, philology, Jewish studies, and manuscript studies.
The workshop aims at bringing together scholars from different academic and national communities, since many different groups are working on the Iberian Peninsula. This includes several nationally determined groups such as the strong Germanophone scholarship on Iberia as well as a variety of subject-related groups such as crusade scholars devoted to corresponding phenomena in the Peninsula. Our workshop shall provide a framework for putting various communities into conversation, and thus generate new synergies between different scholarly traditions.
The workshop will consist of a three-fold format, that is, (a) both paper and poster presentations of the early career researchers; (b) interactive workshop formats, where four eminent experts on the Iberian Peninsula (see below) will introduce to specific subjects, challenges, and sources of medieval Iberian history; and (c) the opportunity to converse with the four experts in a one-on-one format.
The four experts are (1) Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann, Professor for Latin Philology at the University of Zurich, an eminent scholar for diverse forms of Latin texts from songs to historiographical texts and dialogues; (2) Katrin Kogman-Appel, Professor for Jewish Studies at the University of Münster, who focusses on art historical approaches and Jewish book culture in its diverse forms; (3) Patrick Henriet, historian and Directeur d’études at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, an expert for hagiographic texts, anti-heretical concerns, and monasticism in Iberia; and (4) Nikolas Jaspert, Professor for Medieval History at the University of Heidelberg, a renowned scholar on crusading and the “Reconquista” on the Iberian Peninsula, monastic and knightly orders, and broader Mediterranean entanglements. This rich program thus straddles various periods, subjects, and sources.
If you are interested in presenting at the workshop, please send a title and an abstract of c. 250 words (in English) to the two organizers by 31 Oct. 2024.
Organizers:
Patrick Marschner, Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Patrick.Marschner@oeaw.ac.at
Alexander Marx, Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences
alexander.marx@oeaw.ac.at
